Pamela crisis -- Found corrupt substack
Richard Gaskin
ambassador at fourthworld.com
Mon Aug 2 00:36:11 EDT 2004
Ken Ray wrote:
> Pam,
>
> I looked at your stack and decided that I'd take the "no frills" approach
> and try opening it with lockMessages on in MetaCard on Windows. I
> immediately got the error:
>
> "Can't open stack because stack is corrupted, check for ~ backup file."
>
> So since MC can open Rev files without problems, you definitely had a
> corrupted file. The next thing to determine was just *where* the corruption
> existed.
>
> After individually removing substacks and testing, it turns out that the
> substack "MONGOL_EDIT" is corrupt. I would highly recommend rebuilding this
> stack from scratch if you can in order to remove the corruption. Once this
> is done, you should be able to build an executable under Windows as normal.
Pam: Is there a copy of the file in the original directory with the same
name but prefaced with "~"?
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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